Ben Heald's blog

07 November 2011
10 year publishing deal between CCH and ICAEW unwinds
Erstwhile commercial partners CCH and ICAEW are set to go head to head from February 2012 - some predictions on how things might play out.
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03 November 2011
The events that have shaped Sift’s (first) 15 years
Obviously any company that’s lived through a 15 year period has some stories to tell. So, as we celebrate Sift’s 15 year anniversary with events in London and Bristol, this post looks back at what were the events that have served to shape the Sift of 2011?
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26 September 2011
Twitter Love isn't a marketing strategy - CEO lessons from a year in social media
They say that CEOs and social media is like watching your parents dance! So it was with some trepidation that I renewed my career as a blogger a year ago. I thought I’d report back a year on.
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19 August 2011
Ethos & culture at Sift
Sift is a strong believer in parties, with its summer sports events, out of work teams and drinks at the end of the week; but the Sift ethos is much more. At the latest quarterly company meeting, I presented my thoughts on the Sift ethos, which I’m giving a wider airing here.
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27 July 2011
Four years of Drupal at Sift
I've been meaning to write something about Sift and Drupal for a while, but James Skinner, MD of SiftGroups got there first, so this is 95% his piece, with just a few tweaks from me.
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12 July 2011
The Apprentice – a business remake!
The Apprentice is the closest thing we’ve got to engaging business TV, but it could be so much better. Here’s how it could be more relevant, more interesting, more educational and more engaging.
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22 June 2011
The challenge of building Accounting WEB into a global digital publishing brand
Whilst preparing my slides for the Specialist Media Conference last month, I reflected on the differing fortunes of the three AccountingWEB country brands that we created over ten years ago, which started from the same premise, but now look, feel and behave very differently.
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26 April 2011
How should government best support entrepreneurial small business
Some thoughts following my involvement in three recent government minister visits to Bristol
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19 April 2011
Networking lessons from 15 years at Sift
Over the years, many of Sift’s clients and business relationships have come from my personal networking. This post summarises my networking approach.
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17 March 2011
Online publishing is community publishing
Ben Heald argues that publishers will have to properly involve the community in all decisions; otherwise, they’ll risk losing its patronage!
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